Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-8793 - Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 4.7 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
local
high complexity
opensmtpd
fedoraproject
canonical
CWE-367
nessus
exploit available

Summary

OpenSMTPD before 6.6.4 allows local users to read arbitrary files (e.g., on some Linux distributions) because of a combination of an untrusted search path in makemap.c and race conditions in the offline functionality in smtpd.c.

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Leveraging Race Conditions via Symbolic Links
    This attack leverages the use of symbolic links (Symlinks) in order to write to sensitive files. An attacker can create a Symlink link to a target file not otherwise accessible to her. When the privileged program tries to create a temporary file with the same name as the Symlink link, it will actually write to the target file pointed to by the attackers' Symlink link. If the attacker can insert malicious content in the temporary file she will be writing to the sensitive file by using the Symlink. The race occurs because the system checks if the temporary file exists, then creates the file. The attacker would typically create the Symlink during the interval between the check and the creation of the temporary file.
  • Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
    This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.

Exploit-Db

idEDB-ID:48139
last seen2020-02-26
modified2020-02-26
published2020-02-26
reporterExploit-DB
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/48139
titleOpenSMTPD 6.6.3 - Arbitrary File Read

Nessus

  • NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
    NASL idUBUNTU_USN-4294-1.NASL
    descriptionIt was discovered that OpenSMTPD mishandled certain input. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell commands as any non-root user. (CVE-2020-8794) It was discovered that OpenSMTPD did not properly handle hardlinks under certain conditions. An unprivileged local attacker could read the first line of any file on the filesystem. (CVE-2020-8793). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2020-03-06
    plugin id134299
    published2020-03-06
    reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134299
    titleUbuntu 18.04 LTS / 19.10 : OpenSMTPD vulnerabilities (USN-4294-1)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
    # extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4294-1. The text 
    # itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
    # <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
    # trademark of Canonical, Inc.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(134299);
      script_version("1.2");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/10");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2020-8793", "CVE-2020-8794");
      script_xref(name:"USN", value:"4294-1");
    
      script_name(english:"Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 19.10 : OpenSMTPD vulnerabilities (USN-4294-1)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated package.");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "It was discovered that OpenSMTPD mishandled certain input. A remote,
    unauthenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute
    arbitrary shell commands as any non-root user. (CVE-2020-8794)
    
    It was discovered that OpenSMTPD did not properly handle hardlinks
    under certain conditions. An unprivileged local attacker could read
    the first line of any file on the filesystem. (CVE-2020-8793).
    
    Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
    description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
    has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
    without introducing additional issues."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4294-1/"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"solution", 
        value:"Update the affected opensmtpd package."
      );
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'OpenSMTPD OOB Read Local Privilege Escalation');
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:opensmtpd");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/02/25");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/03/02");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/03/06");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2020 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("ubuntu.inc");
    include("misc_func.inc");
    
    if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
    if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
    release = chomp(release);
    if (! preg(pattern:"^(18\.04|19\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 18.04 / 19.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
    if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
    if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
    if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"18.04", pkgname:"opensmtpd", pkgver:"6.0.3p1-1ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:"19.10", pkgname:"opensmtpd", pkgver:"6.0.3p1-6ubuntu0.2")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      security_report_v4(
        port       : 0,
        severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
        extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
      );
      exit(0);
    }
    else
    {
      tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
      if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
      else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "opensmtpd");
    }
    
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_F0683976577911EA8A771C872CCB1E42.NASL
    descriptionOpenSMTPD developers reports : An out of bounds read in smtpd allows an attacker to inject arbitrary commands into the envelope file which are then executed as root. Separately, missing privilege revocation in smtpctl allows arbitrary commands to be run with the _smtpq group. An unprivileged local attacker can read the first line of an arbitrary file (for example, root
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2020-02-25
    plugin id133973
    published2020-02-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/133973
    titleFreeBSD : OpenSMTPd -- LPE and RCE in OpenSMTPD's default install (f0683976-5779-11ea-8a77-1c872ccb1e42)
    code
    #
    # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
    #
    # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
    # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
    #
    # Copyright 2003-2020 Jacques Vidrine and contributors
    #
    # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML,
    # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification,
    # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
    # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above
    #    copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
    #    disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified.
    # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs,
    #    published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript,
    #    RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright
    #    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer
    #    in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
    #    distribution.
    # 
    # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
    # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
    # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
    # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS
    # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
    # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT
    # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR
    # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
    # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE
    # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION,
    # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
    #
    
    include("compat.inc");
    
    if (description)
    {
      script_id(133973);
      script_version("1.4");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/06");
    
      script_cve_id("CVE-2020-8793", "CVE-2020-8794");
    
      script_name(english:"FreeBSD : OpenSMTPd -- LPE and RCE in OpenSMTPD's default install (f0683976-5779-11ea-8a77-1c872ccb1e42)");
      script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");
    
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"synopsis", 
        value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"description", 
        value:
    "OpenSMTPD developers reports :
    
    An out of bounds read in smtpd allows an attacker to inject arbitrary
    commands into the envelope file which are then executed as root.
    Separately, missing privilege revocation in smtpctl allows arbitrary
    commands to be run with the _smtpq group.
    
    An unprivileged local attacker can read the first line of an arbitrary
    file (for example, root's password hash in /etc/master.passwd) or the
    entire contents of another user's file (if this file and
    /var/spool/smtpd/ are on the same filesystem)."
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/24/4"
      );
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/02/24/5"
      );
      # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/f0683976-5779-11ea-8a77-1c872ccb1e42.html
      script_set_attribute(
        attribute:"see_also",
        value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?06a355fa"
      );
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
      script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
      script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
      script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
      script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2020-8794");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"metasploit_name", value:'OpenSMTPD OOB Read Local Privilege Escalation');
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_framework_metasploit", value:"true");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:opensmtpd");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");
    
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/02/22");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/02/24");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/02/25");
      script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
      script_end_attributes();
    
      script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
      script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
      script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");
    
      script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
      script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");
    
      exit(0);
    }
    
    
    include("audit.inc");
    include("freebsd_package.inc");
    
    
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
    if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
    
    
    flag = 0;
    
    if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"opensmtpd<6.6.4,1")) flag++;
    
    if (flag)
    {
      if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
      else security_hole(0);
      exit(0);
    }
    else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
    
  • NASL familyFreeBSD Local Security Checks
    NASL idFREEBSD_PKG_76F1CE19574911EABFF8C85B76CE9B5A.NASL
    descriptionQualys reports : We discovered a minor vulnerability in OpenSMTPD, OpenBSD
    last seen2020-03-18
    modified2020-02-25
    plugin id133971
    published2020-02-25
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/133971
    titleFreeBSD : OpenSMTPd -- Local information disclosure (76f1ce19-5749-11ea-bff8-c85b76ce9b5a)